AMPOFO V. THE STATE

ARCHER J.

The appellant was convicted on two counts of assaulting two police officers at Swedru on 25 August 1966 while acting in the execution of their duties contrary to section 205 of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29). The appellant who was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour appealed against the conviction on the ground that the learned magistrate failed to appreciate the true interpretation of section 205 of the Criminal Code and convicted the appellant wrongly. He also appealed against sentence.

The facts are briefly as follows: The appellant, who was at the time the wholesale keeper of the Ghana National Trading Corporation, was in his store when a price inspection superintendent, the second prosecution witness, came in and inspected his goods. When the second prosecution witness came, labourers were loading rice onto a truck. Earlier in the morning, the second prosecution witness had seen the district manager of the G.N.T.C. at Swedru and he had been informe…